The bearded man with the jaunty bow tie was painted by Pablo Picasso in the
first flush of his genius and promptly hidden in a place where no one would
find it for at least a century — beneath the brush strokes of another
Picasso painting.

Now teams of scientists wielding X-rays, spectrometers and a particle
accelerator have uncovered the portrait by the artist as a young man, a work
that has lain buried beneath paint since the summer of 1901.

Revealed in monochrome, physicists and chemists are now identifying the
pigments of the paint that will allow the work to